Detroit Free Press

The storm arrived, the thunder clapped, and lightning shattered the darkened sky.And that was inside the ...

Magic Johnson was on the phone, talking about the differences between living in Michigan and living in Los Angeles."The biggest difference?" he said. "Hospitality. Just saying hello."Saying hello? How hard is that?"Do you know that in L.A. you can live for 20 years in the same house and not know your next-door neighbor?" Magic said. "Can you imagine that happening in Michigan? You'd know the whole neighborhood."We offer that up as Defense Exhibit A in what has been, to this point, a one-way spit-fest between La-La Land and the Motor City.

Ben Wallace is the kind of man about whom people have a favorite part. Kind of like a super hero. Some people like ...

Their one guard was supposed to outshine the entire Pistons backcourt. Heck, after Kobe Bryant's miracle shot in ...

So now the Pistons must win five games to take the crown. They already have won two, gotten credit for one, and ...

Five years ago, I did a breakfast interview with Joe Dumars. It was his final season as a Detroit Piston, and he ...

LOS ANGELES -- They were three seconds from the top of the castle. Three seconds from a hammerlock on this series. And then Kobe Bryant lifted as high as a man can go without a trampoline, and Richard Hamilton got a hand up but not enough body, and the ball flew toward the hoop with every ounce of Lakers legend spinning a cloud of pixie dust around it. You knew it was going in. You could have closed your eyes and seen it.

LOS ANGELES -- This was Sunday night, just minutes after the Pistons had stunned the Lakers in Game 1 at the ...